Individually Owned: 150,657
Corporate Owned: 137,281
N/A Airport
Aircraft Accident/Incident Report
Granville, Massachusetts
Sunday, October 12, 2014 13:50 EDT
NTSB Narrative Summary Released at Completion of Accident
On October 12, 2014, about 1350 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28-151, N57SH, was substantially damaged during an off-airport landing near Granville, Massachusetts. The private pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the flight, which departed from Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport (GFL) and was destined for Norwood Memorial Airport (OWD), Norwood, Massachusetts. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91.
According to the pilot, about 20 minutes into the cross country flight, the engine began running roughly. He scanned the engine instruments and noticed that the tachometer was still showing a normal rpm reading, but that the number one cylinder's digital temperature indication graph was blank. Shortly thereafter the engine began losing power, and the pilot advised air traffic control that he intended to divert to Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport (BAF), Springfield, Massachusetts, located about 20 miles away. Shortly thereafter, the pilot observed the number one cylinder temperature briefly change from no indication, to a full red bar, then back to no indication.
As the engine's power output continued to gradually decrease, the pilot decided to perform a precautionary landing to a farm field below. Approaching the field, the pilot felt that the airplane was too high and too fast for landing, so he performed a go-around in order to approach the field from the opposite direction. During the second landing attempt, the airplane touched down "hard", collapsing the nose landing gear, resulting in substantial damage to the firewall.
An examination of the airplane's engine was scheduled for a later date.
NTSB Probable Cause Narrative
Not Yet Reported
Event Information
| Type of Event | Accident |
| Event Date | 10/12/2014 |
| Event Day of the Week | Sunday |
| Time of Event | 1350 |
| Event Time Zone | Eastern Daylight Time |
| Event City | Granville |
| Event State | MASSACHUSETTS |
| Event Country | -- |
| Zipcode of the event site | -- |
| Event Date Year | 2014 |
| Event Date Month | 10 |
| MidAir Collision Indicator | No |
| On Ground Collision occurred ? | No |
| Event Location Latitude | -- |
| Event Location Longitude | -- |
| Event Location Airport | N/A |
| Event Location Nearest Airport ID | -- |
| Indicates whether the acc/inc occurred off or on an airport | Off Airport/Airstrip |
| Distance from airport in statute miles | -- |
| Degrees magnetic from airport | -- |
| Airport Elevation | -- |
| Weather Briefing Completeness | -- |
| Investigator's weather source | Unknown |
| Time of the weather observation | 1753 Coordinated Universal Time? Same as GMT |
| Direction of event from weather observation facility (degrees) | 270 |
| Weather Observation Facility ID | BAF |
| Elevation of weather observation facility | 270 |
| Distance of event from weather observation facility (units?) | 10 |
| Time Zone of the weather observation | UTC |
| Lighting Conditions | Day |
| Lowest Ceiling Height | -- |
| Lowest Non-Ceiling Height | -- |
| Sky/Lowest/Cloud Conditions | Clear |
| Sky Condition for Lowest Ceiling | None |
| Visibility Runway Visual Range (Feet) | -- |
| Visibility Runway Visual Value (Statute Miles) | -- |
| Visibility (Statute Miles) | 10 |
| Air Temperature at event time (in degrees celsius) | 16 |
| Dew Point at event time (in degress fahrenheit) | 4 |
| Wind Direction (degrees magnetic) | -- |
| Variable Wind Indicator | Variable |
| Wind Speed (knots) | 3 |
| Wind Velocity Indicator | Light and Variable |
| Wind Gust Indicator | Not Gusting |
| Wind Gust (knots) | -- |
| Altimeter Setting at event time (in. Hg) | 30.24 |
| Density Altitude (feet) | -- |
| Intensity of Precipitation | -- |
| METAR weather report | METAR KBAF 121753Z VRB03KT 10SM CLR 16/04 A3024 RM |
| Event Highest Injury | None |
| On Ground, Fatal Injuries | -- |
| On Ground, Minor Injuries | -- |
| On Ground, Serious Injuries | -- |
| Injury Total Fatal | -- |
| Injury Total Minor | -- |
| Injury Total None | 1 |
| Injury Total Serious | -- |
| Injury Total All | -- |
| Investigating Agency | NTSB |
| NTSB Docket Number (internal use) | -- |
| NTSB Notification Source | FAA ROC |
| NTSB Notification Date | -- |
| NTSB Notification Time | -- |
| Fiche Number and/or location -used to find docket information | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Oct 20 2014 3:35PM |
| User who most recently changed record | diad |
| Basic weather conditions | Visual Meteorological Cond |
| FAA District Office | -- |
Aircraft Involved |
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|---|---|
Aircraft #1 |
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| Aircraft Registration Number | N57SH |
| NTSB Number | ERA15LA015 |
| Missing Aircraft Indicator | -- |
| Federal Aviation Reg. Part | Part 91: General Aviation |
| Type of Flight Plan filed | None |
| Flight plan Was Activated? | No |
| Damage | Substantial |
| Aircraft Fire | None |
| Aircraft Explosion | None |
| Aircraft Manufacturer's Full Name | PIPER |
| Aircraft Model | PA-28-151 |
| Aircraft Series Identifier | -- |
| Aircraft Serial Number | 28-7415336 |
| Certified Max Gross Weight | 2326 |
| Aircraft Category | Airplane |
| Aircraft Registration Class | -- |
| Aircraft is a homebuilt? | No |
| Flight Crew Seats | -- |
| Cabin Crew Seats | -- |
| Passenger Seats | -- |
| Total number of seats on the aircraft | 4 |
| Number of Engines | 1 |
| Fixed gear or retractable gear | Fixed |
| Aircraft, Type of Last Inspection | -- |
| Date of Last Inspection | -- |
| Airframe hours since last inspection | -- |
| Airframe Hours | -- |
| ELT Installed | Unknown |
| ELT Activated | Unknown |
| ELT Aided Location of Event Site | Unknown |
| ELT Type | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Name | ASHER STEVEN E |
| Aircraft Owner Street Address | 11 CROWN ST |
| Aircraft Owner City | AUBURNDALE |
| Aircraft Owner State | MA |
| Aircraft Owner Country | USA |
| Aircraft Owner Zipcode | 021661201 |
| Operator is an individual? | Yes |
| Operator Name | ASHER STEVEN E |
| Operator Same as Owner? | Yes |
| Operator Is Doing Business As | -- |
| Operator Address Same as Owner? | Yes |
| Operator Street Address | 11 CROWN ST |
| Operator City | AUBURNDALE |
| Operator State | MA |
| Operator Country | USA |
| Operator Zip code | 021661201 |
| Operator Code | -- |
| Owner has at least one certificate | None |
| Other Operator of large aircraft? | -- |
| Certified for Part 133 or 137 Operation | -- |
| Operator Certificate Number | -- |
| Indicates whether an air carrier operation was scheduled or not | -- |
| Indicates Domestic or International Flight | -- |
| Operator carrying Pax/Cargo/Mail | -- |
| Type of Flying (Per_Bus / Primary) | Personal |
| Second Pilot on Board | No |
| Departure Point Same as Event | No |
| Departure Airport Code | GFL |
| Departure City | GLENS FALLS |
| Departure State | NY |
| Departure Country | USA |
| Departure Time | -- |
| Departure Time Zone | -- |
| Destination Same as Local Flt | -- |
| Destination Airport Code | OWD |
| Destination City | NORWOOD |
| Destination State | MA |
| Destination Country | USA |
| Specific Phase of Flight | -- |
| Report sent to ICAO? | -- |
| Evacuation occurred | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Oct 20 2014 3:35PM |
| User who most recently changed record | diad |
| Since inspection or accident | -- |
| Event Location Runway Number and Location | N/A |
| Runway Length | -- |
| Runway Width | -- |
| Sight Seeing flight | No |
| Air Medical Flight | No |
| Medical Flight | -- |